Coupling system for image projection

• US 4,729,031 A
• Filed: 07/26/1984
• Issued: 03/01/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Shuugizono, Osamu, Saito, Shobu, Iwahara, Yoshiaki, Yoshizaki, Isao, Oguino, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/634,559
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: 358/237, 358/60, 358/250, 358/251, 358/252, 358/253, 358/247
• US Class Current: 348/779
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 29/894 Arrangements combined with the vessel for the purpose of image projection on a screen projection arrangements for image reproduction, e.g. using eidophor H04N5/74
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/7408 Direct viewing projectors, e.g. an image displayed on a video CRT or LCD display being projected on a screen

Abstract

In a video projector for projecting a video picture displayed on a Braun tube, the space between the Braun tube and a lens is filled with a medium having a refractive index substantially equal to those of both the glass faceplate of the braun tube and the material of the lens, and the medium is a silicon resin of the mixture of two liquids which is in liquid phase just after the mixing of two or three or above liquids but cured after lapse of a certain time into a gel state, and the lens is supported by a lens holder so that it can be moved freely along the optical axis within the lens holder.

Claims

1. A video projector for projecting a video picture displayed on Braun tube means through lens means onto screen means such that a plurality of independent light beams emitted from said Braun tube means are composed with each other on said screen means, wherein a space between said Braun tube means and said lens means is filled with a silicon resin having a refractive index approximately the same as that of each of a glass faceplate of said Braun tube means and the material of said lens means, said silicon resin comprising at least two liquids which is in a liquid phase just after said at least two liquids are mixed and which is cured into a gel state, and wherein said lens means is supported by lens holder means so that said lens means is movable along an optical axis within said lens holder means.

2. A video projector according to claim 1, wherein said Braun tube meams includes three independent Braun tubes for emitting three independent light beams respectively, wherein said lens means includes three lenses respectively associated with said three independent Braun tubes, and wherein a space between each of said Braun tubes and the associated one of said lenses is filled with said silicon resin.

3. A video projector according to claim 2, wherein the associated one of said lenses is supported by a lens holder of said lens holder means so that said lens is movable along an optical axis within said lens holder.